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Organizational Philosophy Discussion Thread

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Put yourselves in the shoes of the Ricketts. Your team has just lost 91 games with a $134 MM payroll entering the season. Why the **** would you give your front office another $130-140 MM the next season? Why would any business owner do that?

There are any number of combinations of players that were available last season.

But keep in mind, that's also assuming we don't get 19 wins combined worth of negative variance and sub-replacement players. It involves a total effort top-to-bottom of the roster, not just throwing on some top-end players.

Put yourselves in the shoes of the Ricketts. Your team has just lost 91 games with a $134 MM payroll entering the season. Why the **** would you give your front office another $130-140 MM the next season? Why would any business owner do that?

Because this is a different front office than the one that lost 91 games (and don't forget that team had heavy SP injury problems).

If you are scared to invest in trying to win, don't buy a big-market pro sports team.

There are any number of combinations of players that were available last season.

But keep in mind, that's also assuming we don't get 19 wins combined worth of negative variance and sub-replacement players. It involves a total effort top-to-bottom of the roster, not just throwing on some top-end players.

As always, offseasons are too complicated to simply list players. Too many contingencies. If I sign a 1b early, that means I don't get Rizzo, but I can use Cashner for something else, maybe a trade. If I trade for Chase Headley, do I get to use his 7-win season or do I have to use his pre-season projections? If I keep Samardzija in the bullpen, do I take his fWAR or his bWAR out of the rotation and plug in a replacement?

As far as "fix," I would say "has at least a 25% chance to make the playoffs going into the season."

spending 120+mill to be average is not smart.
thats why last year after we got rid of all we could from the JH years, for what ever anyone wanted to give us, casue when ur giving up a zambrano ur only gonna get a volstad return...
you play the kids, trade what little proven vets we had for young prospects. thats the way it works in baseball and the way it will continue to work.

and that "strong" farm system you said we had when Theo came produced 101 losses... so theres that.

when theo came, bottom to top, cubs had LOW TALENT levels. which is the base of ur arguement...